Subject: Re: bug#63527: [PATCH 0/3] Initial attempt at rumpdisk support for the Hurd.

From: Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 11:30:24 +0200

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> When booting with pci-arbiter and rumpdisk and using 1024MB of memory for
>> qemu, booting hangs, or seems to hang, at the end of the rumpdisk boot
>> messages.  At least 1200MB is required, currently.
>>
>> * gnu/services/virtualization.scm (<hurd-vm-configuration>)[memory-size]: Bump
>> to 2048.
>> * gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl: Suggest using 2048 here too.  Update
>> example `guix system image' and "qemu" command lines too.
>
> Sounds a bit fishy.  :-)
>
> Does Debian resort to a similar workaround?

Yes, Debian has the same problem, the latest debian image
(https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-20220824.img)
hangs in an identical way.

See https://logs.guix.gnu.org/hurd/2023-05-18.log#091300

youpi seid "rumpdisk is very eaty, we need to fix that"

Greetings,
Janneke

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